The story
Two brothers from Ireland saw that accepting a payment online took weeks of paperwork, so they cut it to a few lines of code. Early on they'd install it for founders on the spot, which became known as the Collison install.
No. 030 · 2010 · Palo Alto
Stripe
Seven lines of code. Then two brothers took your laptop.
The internet's cash register
Make my startup a legend- 1 Two brothers from rural Ireland.
- 2 Taking payments online means weeks of paperwork.
- 3 Their pitch: seven lines of code.
- 4 Every YC founder wants it.
- 5 "Sure. Give us your laptop."
- 6 They install it for you. On the spot.
- 7 The Collison install is now a Valley verb.
- 8 Now it's quietly under half the internet.
- Founders
- Patrick Collison and John Collison
- Founded
- 2010, Palo Alto
- What they do
- Payments infrastructure for the internet.